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_cowb

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    Comment #30230681

    It’s been a while since I didn’t visited a website not mobile-ready… Hopefully reader-mode works as expected.

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    Comment #29694138

    I concur, a very well crafted and maintained project.

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    Comment #29659620

    To be honest it wasn’t a thing anymore since some years already. I was a client of them and I stopped using Better facing too many issues and no help from the maintainers…

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    Comment #29612454

    That’s an interesting question indeed. Based on this public documentation from Stripe it seems they take a 1% cut: https://stripe.com/pricing/local-payment-methods But maybe I don’…

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    Comment #29612388

    I happen to be somewhat disappointed by Signal recently (crypto payments bundled in app, shady open-source practices…) but to this day I cannot find any viable alternative as a ful…

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    Comment #29339963

    Thanks for the detailed explanation, I better understand now and indeed it has no place here.

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    Comment #29339722

    English isn't my mother tongue, I thought the expression was appropriate but reading your comments I realised maybe not. Update the title accordingly.

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    Comment #29339471

    It became slow and unresponsive over the months, eating more and more memory. I'm currently trying the community supported ARM version and it's a relief.

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    Comment #29339464

    The community already done that: https://github.com/dennisameling/signal-desktop (working on Windows & Apple ARM). Still, I think it's a shame that all the work was done, ready to …

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    Comment #29155203

    Do you already know Flarum? If so, did you tried it? https://flarum.org

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    Comment #28536425

    I really love the pricing model, refreshing: > thoughts.page is free for anyone who makes less than $40,000 USD/year, and costs $5/month otherwise.

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    Comment #28515628

    They aren’t even close to Digital Ocean in terms of quality of service, support, performances or documentation. They are more like OVH, another french provider. A lot of software l…

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    Comment #28454131

    You are completely true about China, and the bipartisan cooperation Switzerland is working on must cease. But alas, it’s not the trend. The Swiss government is even inviting China …

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    Comment #28453705

    A reminder for us all that Switzerland is not an heaven protecting the oppressed. Capitalism always win.

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    Comment #28355480

    Is the input lag in par with other e-ink notebooks?

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    Comment #27941432

    I believe the website must be hosted on a homeserver on some shelve somewhere. I still can’t reach the page, timeouts!

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    Comment #27769893

    What is « Magit »?? Can’t find any information about it on this GitHub repository.

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    Comment #27446632

    So they can’t be removed, right?

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    Comment #27446424

    Actually there isn't any residues left on the surface, it's perfectly smooth without any asperities. I wonder if it has been caused by the effect of the sun? Because the marks real…

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    Tell HN: Don't put stickers on your MacBook's back

    After 2 years on I decided to peel my MacBook stickers. Obviously they ruined it: https://imgur.com/a/qrPeCKQ

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    Comment #26768669

    She surely can’t use it if she don’t receive the validation email as I do!